Richard Onyango - Artist Info

About Richard Onyango

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    Richard Onyango is one of Africa's most important artists. Made famous by Andre Magnin and Jean Pigozzi in the 1980's he had worked as a drummer in a band and later as a bus conductor before becoming a full time painter. Fascinated by buses and vehicles including trains from a young age, Onyango, with his near perfect powers of visual recall, recreated buses and other vehicles that he had seen as a boy. Onyango has long been fascinated by the concept of development. Excited by the vision of his country and continent harnessing and embracing technology to increase prosperity for its citizens. Central to this is a reverence for the machine and its maintenance. The bus named Kangalika once glimpsed by the nine year old Onyango is not a sen...

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